Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zen student, he knows that the danger in any quest is having great expectations. Watching passively and eliminating the distinctions between the observer and the observed are Zen basics that have been familiar to Western readers since Eugen Herrigel told us how the bow and arrow became an extension of his body in Zen in the Art of Archery (1953). Matthiessen has a full quiver and considerable patience; his problem seems to be an overabundance of targets...
Matthiessen's excursions into intellectual history and "one's true nature" distract from his sensuous descriptions of nature, and his discourses on Zen often get in the way of his personal reflections. He bears his pilgrim's burden with melancholy dignity, but, ironically, his book lacks an essential Zen element: wit, the lightness of touch that is absolutely necessary when jiggling the web of paradoxes nature has stretched across its secrets...
Glancing away from the torrid spectre of Howard Cosell's face and the microphone extension that had been thrust into his eyes, Sully saw Bill Lee reading from a book of Zen Buddhist riddles...
...real University is not a material object. It is not a group of buildings that can be defended by the police. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
...Yorker, she also celebrated the Upper West Side. Hillenbrand had feared she would have trouble expressing in words the nuances that her body projects onstage, but he was pleasantly surprised: "After relating to her every muscle in practice for years, Gelsey has that same intimate self-awareness that Zen Buddhists have...